Rafael Rangel
José Rafael Rangel Estrada, Venezuelan parasitologist (Betijoque, Trujillo State 25 April 1877 –Caracas 20 August 1909) Described with Romero Sierra Diptera species Aedes dominicii 1907 Studied an equine disease known as “peste boba” from which obtained a trypanosome species. It was described and named Trypanosoma venezuelense by Mesnil
Rafael Ramírez Merchán
Rafael Francisco Ramírez Merchán, Colombian obstetrician (died Bogotá 1986) Developed a new obstetric maneuver for dystocia before Maughan (1956) & Kutcipal (1959) The Presentation of an original technique for applying forceps in posterior varieties of the vertex. Rev. Col. Obst. Ginecol. 1:60, 1950 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY La psicoprofilaxis obstetrica. Rev. Col. Obst. Ginecol. 34(4):238-43, 1983 With A. Velasco Chiriboga, A. Ariza, E. Aaron & E. Cabal. Las espátulas de Velasco. Evaluación clinica. Rev. Col. Obst. Ginecol. 26:111, 1975 With L. Rojas. Rotura uterina. Rev. Col. Obst. Ginecol. 20(5):365-71, 1969 Tratamiento de las septicemias puerperales por imunotransfusión (1942) Miomatosis uterina y embarazo
Rafael Ramos Galvan
Rafael Ramos Galván, Mexican pediatrician (Ciudad de Mexico 09 July 1914 – Ciudad de Mexico 11 November 1998) Authored about 450 works With J. Cravioto & F. Gómez characterized the child severe malnutrition First described nutritional recovery syndrome With J. Cravioto & F. Gómez. Nutritional recovery syndrome (Preliminary report). Pediatrics 10:513-26, 1952 Described nutritional neutropenia and the clinical features of polineuritis Showed that third-degree child malnutrition and kwashiorkor are the same thing With J. Cravioto, F. Gómez & S. Frenk. Desnutrición de tercer grado en Mexico (kwashiorkor en Africa). Bol. Med. Hosp. Inf. 9(3):281, 1952 With F. Gómez showed the chlorine concentration in the sweat and described the pattern of plasmatic amino acids showing the transient existence of metabolic blocks similar to congenital errors of metabolism Classified malnutrition clinical signs in universal, circumstantial and aggregate Better documented the reduction in somatic growth in chronic malnourished children Identified changes in body proportion due to malnutrition Desnutrición y crecimiento fisico. Bol. Med. Hosp. Inf. Mexico 21 (Suppl 1):11-26, 1964 Efecto del ambiente sobre el crecimiento y desarrollo fisicos. Bol. Med. Hosp. Inf. Mexico 27:435-46, 1970 Consecuencias de la desnutrición cronica en los grupos humanos. Gac. Med. Mexico 111:297-316, 1976 Proposed new concepts in pediatric somatometry Somatometria pediatrica. Estudio semilongitudinal en niños de la Ciudad de Mexico. Arch. Invest. Med. 6 (Suppl 1):83-396, 1975 Validated and developed the concept of homeorrhesis to describe and measure longitudinally the changes in form and magnitude of the infant, child and adolescent under the effect of the stress of malnutrition and during nutritional rehabilitation (1964-75) Homeorhesis as a phenomenon of adaptation to calorie-protein deficiency (1966) Homeorresis. Bol. Med. Hosp. Inf. 24:5, 1967 OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS Desnutrición, un componente del síndrome de privación social. Gac. Med. 96:929, 1966 With J. Cravioto. Desnutrición en el niño. Concepto y ensayo de sistematización. Bol. Med. Hosp. Inf. 15(6):763, 1958 PAPERS IN RELEVANT PERIODICALS With F. Gómez, J. Cravioto & S. Frenk. Prevention and treatment of chronic severe infantile malnutrition (kwashiorkor). Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 69(5):969-81, 1958 With F. Gómez, J. Cravioto, S. Frenk, J. Vazquez Santaella & C. de la Peña. Fat absorption in chronic severe malnutrition in children. Lancet 268(6934):121-2, 1956
Rabello family
Francisco Eduardo Accioli Rabello, Brazilian dermatologist (Rio de Janeiro 31 December 1905 – 25 January 1989) Authored about 200 scientific works Enunciated the polarity concept in various clinical forms of leprosy A clinico-epidemiological classification of the forms of leprosy. Int. J. Leprol. 5:343-56, 1937 Classified leprosy in four types: virchowian, tuberculoid, dimorphous and undetermined (1938) Created a conceptual system of dermatological nomenclature Described the late reaction of Montenegro test Pointed out new allergy aspects of the lympho-granulomatosis disease Claimed attention for the first time to the possibility of cross reactions between Koch and Hansen’s antigens-antibodies Eponym of Rabello colliquative neuritis and Rabello impetiginoid lesions in cutaneous leishmaniasis Uma classificação clínica das piodermites. An. Bras. Derm. Sif. 15(2):65-9, 1940 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Coccidioidina como tratamento de blastomicose. An. Bras. Derm. Sifililogr. 9:34, 1934 Donnees nouvelles pour l’interpretation de l’affection de Besnier-Boeck: role de la lepre. Ann. Dermatol. Syphil 7:571, 1936 A framboesia tropica e o problema das suas manifestações tardias. An. Bras. Derm. Sifililogr 13:17, 1938 A lepra incaracterística na experiência do Sanatório Padre Bento. Rev. Bras. Leprol. 11(2):115-32, 1943 With H. Portugal & R.D. Azulay. As buloses do grupo do pênfigo, suas correlações clínicas, funcionais e histológicas. An. Bras. Derm. Sifililogr 24:1, 1949 With R.D. Azulay, A.G. Antunes & J.A. Villela-Pedras. Eritrodermias exfoliativas. An. Bras. Derm. Sifilogr. 28(3):153-74, 1953 Conceituação clinico-biologica das eczematizações. An. Bras. Derm. Sifililogr. 29(1):33-45, 1954 With M. Rutowitsch & C.M. de Medeiros. Pruritic skin diseases. An. Bras. Derm. Sifililogr. 29(4):251-61, 1954 The group B under clinical viewpoint. Arqu. Min. Leprol. 20:412, 1960 With G.A. Quintaes & A. Barcaui. A case with characteristics of lichen sclerosus et atrophicus and a nevoid atrophy in patches, and with possibility of an incomplete form of scleroderma. Anais Bras. Dermatol. 41(4):290-1, 1966 With S. Fraga & C.M. de Medeiros. Chronic cicatricial bullosis. Anais Bras. Dermatol 45(1):31-6, 1970 Clinico-biological concepts of atopic status. Anais Bras. Dermatol. 46(1):35-52, 1971 Dissociated response to rheumatoid factor in lepromatous hanseniasis. JAMA 226 (10):1228, 1973 Amiloidose cutânea genuína (1955-1980). Anais Bras. Dermatol. 56(3):175-7, 1981 Síndrome complexa, familial, multicêntrica, atingindo pele, endocárdio, formações endócrinas e neuroendócrinas, mixomas. Anais Bras. Dermatol. 62(1):5-7, 1987 With V. Boas & H. Portugal. Considerações em torno de um caso de coccidioia com estrutura sarcóide. An. Bras. Dermatol. HONOURS Counselor, International Leprosy Association Expert, International Center of Leprology Chairman, Dermatological Nomenclature Committe of International Congresses of Stockholm (1957) & Washington (1962) His father, Eduardo Rabello, Brazilian dermatologist (Barra Mansa, Rio de Janeiro State 22 September 1876 – Rio de Janeiro 08 August 1940) Identified the nature of leishmaniotic lesions of the mucosa (1909) Authored a classification of the clinical forms of cutaneous leishmaniasis With J. Aguiar Pupo identified lepromatous and tuberculoid-polar types of leprosy First to call attention to a number of frequent forms of tuberculoid leprosy (1923) Described clinical aspects of the blastomycosis and distinguished it bteween the cutaneous and generalized forms Pointed out the existing differences between Brazilian and European ringworm epidemiology Demonstrated the possibility of microsporic ungual lesions (1907) later confirmed Developed techniques for dermatological radiotherapy HONORS Honorary Member, American Dermatological Association (1939) Honorary President, International Leprosy Congress (1923)
Pushpa Narayan Rathie
Pushpa Narayan Rathie, Indian-born Brazilian statistician (16 November 1941 – CONTRIBUTIONS/BIBLIOGRAPHY With L.C.S.M. Ozelim & A.K. Rathie. On a new identity for the H-function with applications to the summation of hypergeometric series. Turk. J. Math. 42:924-35, 2018 With P.H. D. Silva & G.G. olinto. On a new skew generalized logistic distribution. J. Raman. Soc. Math 7 Math. Sci. 5:1-20, 2016 With R.O. Silva, P.H. D. Silva & J.M.A. Mota. On the new skew distribution using Azzalini’s formula. Mathem. Aeterna 6(4):649-73, 2016 With C.R. R. Eirado. On new invertible skew and symmetric distributions. Statis. Res. Lett. 3:17-22, 2014 With R. Matsushita & P.K Swamee. On a polygonal logistic distribution approximating the normal distribution. Invest. Math. Sci. 4:75-80, 2014 With L.C.S.M. Ozelim. General solutions of certain real degree equations and their applications. Advan. Studies Contemp. Math. 22:325-41, 2012 With M. Coutinho. A new skew generalized logistic distribution and approximation to skew normal distributions. Aligarh J. Statis. 31:1-12, 2011 With C.C.S. Caiado. New intensity functions in reliability analysis with applications (2008) With P.K. Swamee & C.C.S. Caiado. New intensity finctions in hydraulic repairable systems (2008) With P.K. Swamee & C.C.S. Caiado. A two parameter skew distribution function (2008) With P.K. Swamee, R. Matsushita & E.Y. Nakano. New indices for water quality and statistical comparisons (2007) With P.K. Swamee. On a new invertible generalized logistic distribution approximation to normal distribution (2006) With C.Q. Silva & A.E. Gomes. A bounded intensity function for repairable systems in reliability theory and applications (2006) With P.K. Swamee & E.Y. Nakano. A generalized aggregate index for water quality (2005) With P.I. Kannappan. On a generalized directed-divergence function. Czech. Math. J. 24:5-14, 1974 With P.I. Kannappan. An axiomatic characterization of generalized directed-divergence. Kybernetika 9:330-7, 1973 With P.I. Kannappan. An inaccuracy functional type β. Ann. Inst. Statis. Math. 25(1):205-14, 1973 With P.I. Kannappan. A directed-divergence function of type β. Inform. Control 20:38-45, 1972 With P.I. Kannappan. An application of a functional equation to information theory. Ann. Polon. Mathem. 26:95-101, 1972 With G.S. Okhla. On a generalized Bessel function and an integral transform. Mathem. Nachr. 51:231-40, 1971 With P.I. Kannappan. On a finctional equation connected with Shannon’s entropy. Funkc. Ekvac. 14:153-9, 1971 On generalized entropy and a coding theorem. J. Appl. Probab. 7:124-33, 1970 With G.S. Okhla. On some new generalized Bessel functions and integral transforms. Rev. Univ. Nac. Tucumán Ser. A 119:45-53, 1969 A theorem on Varma transform. Proceed. Nat. Acad. Sci. India A 39:39-41, 1969 A theorem on Hankel transform. Proceed. Nat. Acad. Sci. India A 37:1-4, 1967 A theorem on Laplace and Meijer transforms. Vijan. Parish. Anus. Patrika 8:63-9, 1965 EPONYMY Rathie-Swamee distribution F-Shah-Rathie distribution Marshall-Olkin-Swamee-Rathie distribution HONOURS IBC Outstanding People of the 21st Century (2002) Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering (2002)
Prafulla Chandra Ray
Prafulla Chandra Ray, Indian chemist (Raruli-Katipara Village, Khulna District, Bangladesh 02 August 1861 – Calcutta 16 June 1944) Authored over 150 papers Famous as historian of Indian chemistry His thesis Conjugated Sulphates of Copper Magnesium Group: A study of isomorphous mixtures and molecular combinations was judged the best in Edinburgh University winning the Hope Prize (1887) His publications on mercurous nitrite and its derivatives brought him international recognition First prepared mercurous nitrite (1896) Synthesized ammonium nitrite in pure form Characterized and prepared many compounds of zinc, cadmium, mercuric iodide, etc.